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ordinalI was talking to a friend earlier on the subject.
It isn't really a choice. One needs a medium to create in. That has been Second Life, but when that stops, when SL stops feeling the right place to go, it isn't as if one just stops thinking. The instinct to express one's ideas in SL has to be - painfully - redirected towards something else... prose, watercolours, interactive fiction, HTML5 games, something. And dragging it back to SL is just as painful a process as moving it away. I don't want to put myself through that again.
me: You can't hang about waiting for things to get better. If it's not working, you have to do something else or die.
me: Once your natural reaction to ideas stops being "hey I wonder how that could be done in SL"... well.
them: its over
me: And it's very hard to go back.
It isn't really a choice. One needs a medium to create in. That has been Second Life, but when that stops, when SL stops feeling the right place to go, it isn't as if one just stops thinking. The instinct to express one's ideas in SL has to be - painfully - redirected towards something else... prose, watercolours, interactive fiction, HTML5 games, something. And dragging it back to SL is just as painful a process as moving it away. I don't want to put myself through that again.
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Date: 2011-09-23 11:59 pm (UTC)Easily the best system around at the moment is Inform. Nothing else comes remotely close; it has the best natural language interpreter of any language ever, and I don't say that lightly, and also generates z-code and blorbs which are easily run by assorted open-source clients (at the moment, on iOS, Frotz is the major one). Inform shocks me with how good it is.
If LL is going to fund and promote Inform and Inform client software that is terrific. I have no idea what if anything it would have to do with SL, but it is still terrific. On the other hand, it could mean nothing like that.
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Date: 2011-09-24 12:22 am (UTC)See also: http://www.choiceofgames.com/ and http://www.choiceofgames.com/make-your-own-games/choicescript-intro/
Oh damn... it's on GitHub and written in JavaScript!!!!!!!
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Date: 2011-09-24 12:25 am (UTC)